A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry.

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Great Poems

Votes PoemAuthor

29The Unseen PlaymateRobert Louis Stevenson

26Pleasure in the Pathless WoodsLord Byron

22IfRudyard Kipling

15Love Sonnet XVIIPablo Neruda

11Because She Would Ask MeChristopher Brennan

11InvictusWilliam Ernest Henley

10I Loved YouAlexander Pushkin

10When you are oldWilliam Butler Yeats

8Extinguish Thou My EyesRainer Maria Rilke

8Sonnet 116William Shakespeare

7Give All to LoveRalph Waldo Emerson

6Admit It and Change EverythingRumi

6He Wishes For The Cloths Of HeavenWilliam Butler Yeats

6O Me! O Life!Walt Whitman

6She Dwelt among the Untrodden WaysWilliam Wordsworth

6The Gardener - 41Rabindranath Tagore

6The Road not TakenRobert Frost

5A Dream within a DreamEdgar Allan Poe

5Love Sonnet XLVPablo Neruda

5She Walks in BeautyLord Byron

4A Book of VersesOmar Khayyam

4Foreign LandsRobert Louis Stevenson

4How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)Elizabeth Barrett Browning

4The Gardener - 40Rabindranath Tagore

4The Passionate PilgrimWilliam Shakespeare

4Visible RealityRumi

3Ah, My BelovedOmar Khayyam

3Love's SecretWilliam Blake

3Ode: Intimations Of ImmortalityWilliam Wordsworth

3Rumors from an Aeolian HarpHenry David Thoreau

3Sonnet 18William Shakespeare

2Annabel LeeEdgar Allan Poe

2Love Sonnet XIPablo Neruda

2Music, When Soft Voices DiePercy Bysshe Shelley

2RememberChristina Georgina Rossetti

2The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveChristopher Marlowe

2The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats

2Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight?Christopher Marlowe

2Wondrous MomentAlexander Pushkin

2Youth and AgeSamuel Taylor Coleridge

1A Moment to RememberAlexander Pushkin

1BirdsongRumi

1EchoChristina Georgina Rossetti

1For Each Ecstatic InstantEmily Dickinson

1Life in a LoveRobert Browning

1Life is but a DreamLewis Carroll

1Love Not MeJohn Wilbye

1No TearsAlexander Pushkin

1Now Sleeps the Crimson PetalAlfred, Lord Tennyson

1SongJohn Keats

1The Rose in the Deeps of his HeartWilliam Butler Yeats

1UlyssesAlfred, Lord Tennyson

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